Patterns of soil water repellency change with wetting and drying: The influence of cracks, roots and drainage conditions

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2799-2813

  Urbanek, Emilia ^a   Walsh, Rory P D ^a   Shakesby, Richard A ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cracks and root holes; Preferential flow; Soil hydrophobicity; Soil water repellency; Wetting and drying

Indexed keywords

DRYING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROPHILICITY; SOIL MOISTURE; TEXTURES; WATERPROOFING;

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SOIL HYDROPHOBICITY; SOIL WATER REPELLENCY; WETTING AND DRYING; WETTING DRYING CYCLES;

WETTING;

CRACK; DRAINAGE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

EID: 84930380385     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10404     Document Type: Article

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